{"id":9374,"date":"2014-02-01T01:10:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T06:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2014-01-17T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T03:41:15","slug":"tink-about-it-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2014\/02\/01\/tink-about-it-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tink About it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crafty witch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On the internet and around me in real life I see a lot of crafty witches. I like to make things too. I\u2019ve made my own runes from willow wood, made my own drum, several brooms, etc. In the past I\u2019ve done a lot like making paper cards, creative journaling, using all kinds of techniques. So\u2026 it\u2019s not that I\u2019m not creative or something.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a part of the crafty world though that I can\u2019t find my way in, although I\u2019ve tried several times. On Pinterest and Facebook I see lots of beautiful wool work: crocheted and knitted mostly. My mum learned me how to knit when I was little. She was very good at it herself, but I didn\u2019t like it. Still I knitted a scarf and sweater, but then I stopped. Over the years people have tried to teach me how to crochet, because I really would like to do it! Earlier this year I tried again. I practiced for weeks, but it wasn\u2019t a success and\u2026 I didn\u2019t like it. So now I decided to give up on knitting and crocheting for good.<\/p>\n

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Through a friend I got to know \u2018tvinningsbennen\u2019 also known as lucet. I bought a tool from her and she learned me how to do. It\u2019s a very old technique, already used by the Vikings. It\u2019s easy and I like it a lot! Some people compare it to spool knitting, but the result isn\u2019t a round cord, but a square one. The produced thread is 7 times stronger than the original material.<\/p>\n

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First I made lots of loose cords. Perhaps I\u2019ll make an altar cloth or rug from those. But of course the witch in me wanted to apply this craft for ritual use or make pagan stuff. The first thing I discovered was, that it is very meditative because of the repetitive movements. It helps me focus. I also use it in nature to get in tune with the place. <\/span><\/p>\n

Then I got another idea, a variation on a witches cord or witches ladder. You can make spell cords, moon cords, initiation cords, or sabbat cords, etc. For spell work, protection, decoration even; it’s all up to you! The first one I made was a Samhain cord. I used Samhain colours. While making it I tuned in on my ancestors and put things in it (physical and non-physical). For the Yule cord I used appropriate colours and attached bells at the end. I used the cord to cast the circle for our ritual to welcome back the light in the early Yule morning last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Imbolc I wanted to do something different. I used the lucet to make a cord around copper wire, bent a circle from it and made a pentagram from twigs in the middle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From left to right: Samhain cord, Yule cord and Imbolc pentacle<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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At the moment I\u2019m working on a rite-of-passage-cord for the daughter of a craft-sister. She is 13 and we are going to do a ritual with her to mark the transformation from girl to young woman and to welcome her in our circle of women. We will all give her something in the ritual and I decided to make a cord for her.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019m using 7 different threads in one: multi-coloured for life itself, black & white for the balance between light and dark, blue & pink for male & female energies, red and very thin silver for the red thread with silver lining. I\u2019ll work little things into it that represent my wishes for her. A key to open (or close) doors, a holey stone for health and strength and other symbols, etc. – a total of 13. While working on it I will think of her life until now and visualize her as a healthy and happy young woman. The length will be her current length.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crafty witch \u00a0 On the internet and around me in real life I see a lot of crafty witches. I like to make things too. I\u2019ve made my own runes from willow wood, made my own drum, several brooms, etc. In the past I\u2019ve done a lot like making paper cards, creative journaling, using all kinds of techniques. So\u2026 it\u2019s not that I\u2019m not creative or something. There\u2019s a part of the crafty world though that I can\u2019t find my way in, although I\u2019ve tried several times. On Pinterest and Facebook I see lots of beautiful wool work: crocheted and knitted mostly. My mum learned me how to knit when I was little. She was very good at it herself, but I didn\u2019t like it. Still I knitted a scarf and sweater, but then I stopped. Over the years people have tried to teach me how to crochet, because I really would like to do it! Earlier this year I tried again. I practiced for weeks, but it wasn\u2019t a success and\u2026 I didn\u2019t like it. So now I decided to give up on knitting and crocheting for good.   Through a friend I got to know \u2018tvinningsbennen\u2019 also known as lucet. I bought a tool from her and she learned me how to do. It\u2019s a very old technique, already used by the Vikings. It\u2019s easy and I like it a lot! Some people compare it to spool knitting, but the result isn\u2019t a round cord, but a square one. The produced thread is 7 times stronger than the original material.         First I made lots of loose cords. Perhaps I\u2019ll make an altar cloth or rug from those. But of course the witch in me wanted to apply this craft for ritual use or make pagan stuff. The first thing I discovered was, that it is very meditative because of the repetitive movements. It helps me focus. I also use it in nature to get in tune with the place. Then I got another idea, a variation on a witches cord or witches ladder. You can make spell cords, moon cords, initiation cords, or sabbat cords, etc. For spell work, protection, decoration even; it’s all up to you! The first one I made was a Samhain cord. I used Samhain colours. While making it I tuned in on my ancestors and put things in it (physical and non-physical). For the Yule cord I used appropriate colours and attached bells at the end. I used the cord to cast the circle for our ritual to welcome back the light in the early Yule morning last year. For Imbolc I wanted to do something different. I used the lucet to make a cord around copper wire, bent a circle from it and made a pentagram from twigs in the middle. From left to right: Samhain cord, Yule cord and Imbolc pentacle At the moment I\u2019m working on a rite-of-passage-cord for the daughter of a craft-sister. She is 13 and we are going to do a ritual with her to mark the transformation from girl to young woman and to welcome her in our circle of women. We will all give her something in the ritual and I decided to make a cord for her. \u00a0I\u2019m using 7 different threads in one: multi-coloured for life itself, black & white for the balance between light and dark, blue & pink for male & female energies, red and very thin silver for the red thread with silver lining. I\u2019ll work little things into it that represent my wishes for her. A key to open (or close) doors, a holey stone for health and strength and other symbols, etc. – a total of 13. While working on it I will think of her life until now and visualize her as a healthy and happy young woman. The length will be her current length.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}